Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Strangeness; foreignness.
- noun Wandering; travel; journey; sojourn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Foreignness; strangeness.
- noun rare Travel; wandering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The quality of being
foreign orstrange . - noun obsolete
travel ;wandering
Etymologies
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Examples
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I asked him if peregrinity was an English word: he laughed, and said, ‘No.’
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I asked him if peregrinity was an English word: he laughed, and said, 'No.'
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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He said to me, as we travelled, 'these people, Sir, that Gerrard talks of, may have somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect, which relation has augmented to a different language.'
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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[414] When upon the subject of this peregrinity, he told me some particulars concerning the compilation of his Dictionary, and concerning his throwing off Lord Chesterfield's patronage, of which very erroneous accounts have been circulated.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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I asked him if peregrinity was an English word: he laughed, and said, 'No.'
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767
whichbe commented on the word peregrinity
Foreignness in style, fashion, dialect, etc.; strangeness, outlandishness.
May 12, 2008
qms commented on the word peregrinity
Though “brotherhood” cites an affinity
Not literal consanguinity
I still find it cloying.
Most folk are annoying
And striking for stark peregrinity.
December 10, 2017